diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 5fb05bb4..bc444832 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ Suggests:
     rstudioapi,
     tidyselect,
     renv,
-    yaml
+    yaml,
+    gt
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Depends: 
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 32cdb556..9ef64fd7 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 ## Updates
 
+- Invisibly returned objects are no longer captured in the "Result" section of the log (#275)
+
 - Removed .dcf file for old Addin (#280)
 
 ## Documentation
diff --git a/R/writer.R b/R/writer.R
index 6f94b114..a22768d4 100644
--- a/R/writer.R
+++ b/R/writer.R
@@ -313,8 +313,10 @@ write_result <- function(file) {
 
   if (is_rmarkdown(file)) {
     c("\nResult:", paste0("\t", capture.output(result)))
-  } else {
+  } else if (isTRUE(result$visible)) {
     c("\nResult:", paste0("\t", capture.output(result$value)))
+  } else {
+    character(0)
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/ref/invisible_returned_gt.R b/tests/testthat/ref/invisible_returned_gt.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9ae88eea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/ref/invisible_returned_gt.R
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+library(gt)
+
+gt_tbl <- gt::gt(head(mtcars))
+gt_tbl
diff --git a/tests/testthat/ref/invisible_returned_obj.R b/tests/testthat/ref/invisible_returned_obj.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bd0714e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/ref/invisible_returned_obj.R
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+my_fun <- function(x) {
+  return(invisible(x))
+}
+my_fun("do not print this")
diff --git a/tests/testthat/ref/invisible_returned_obj.Rmd b/tests/testthat/ref/invisible_returned_obj.Rmd
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ebafbb34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/ref/invisible_returned_obj.Rmd
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+title: "invisible_returned_obj"
+output: html_document
+---
+
+```{r}
+my_fun <- function(x) {
+  return(invisible(x))
+}
+my_fun("do not print this")
+```
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-invisible.R b/tests/testthat/test-invisible.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a903cb1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-invisible.R
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+test_that("invisibly returned results are not written to the log", {
+  options("log.rx" = NULL)
+  scriptPath <- test_path("ref", "invisible_returned_obj.R")
+  logDir <- tempdir()
+
+  axecute(scriptPath, log_name = "log_invisible", log_path = logDir)
+
+  con <- file(file.path(logDir, "log_invisible"), "r")
+  flines <- readLines(con)
+  close(con)
+
+  expect_false(any(grepl("do not print this", flines)))
+
+  rm(flines, con, logDir)
+  log_remove()
+})
+
+test_that("invisibly returned results in Rmd files are not written to the log", {
+  options("log.rx" = NULL)
+  scriptPath <- test_path("ref", "invisible_returned_obj.Rmd")
+  logDir <- tempdir()
+
+  axecute(scriptPath, log_name = "log_invisible_rmd", log_path = logDir)
+
+  con <- file(file.path(logDir, "log_invisible_rmd"), "r")
+  flines <- readLines(con)
+  close(con)
+
+  expect_false(any(grepl("do not print this", flines)))
+
+  rm(flines, con, logDir)
+  log_remove()
+})
+
+test_that("visibly returned results are written to the log", {
+  options("log.rx" = NULL)
+  scriptPath <- test_path("ref", "safely_loudly_test_file_result.R")
+  logDir <- tempdir()
+
+  axecute(scriptPath, log_name = "log_visible", log_path = logDir)
+
+  con <- file(file.path(logDir, "log_visible"), "r")
+  flines <- readLines(con)
+  close(con)
+
+  expect_true(any(grepl("8, 6, 7, 5, 3, 0, 9|test", flines)))
+
+  rm(flines, con, logDir)
+  log_remove()
+})
+
+test_that("gt table HTML content is not written to the result portion of the log", {
+  options("log.rx" = NULL)
+  scriptPath <- test_path("ref", "invisible_returned_gt.R")
+  logDir <- tempdir()
+
+  axecute(scriptPath, log_name = "log_gt", log_path = logDir)
+
+  con <- file(file.path(logDir, "log_gt"), "r")
+  flines <- readLines(con)
+  close(con)
+
+  expect_false(any(grepl("<table", flines, fixed = TRUE)))
+
+  rm(flines, con, logDir)
+  log_remove()
+})